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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

HEPI

The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. 15, the Commissioners who were to frame new Statutes for each of the two universities were required to ‘have regard to the interests of education, religion, learning and research’.

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Strikes disrupt undergraduate learning anew

Inside Higher Ed

And when fall grades will be determined, and by whom, have been open questions at both the New School and UC—which is particularly worrisome to students who rely on grade point averages to maintain scholarships and U.S. Then, later in the week, came compromise. Inflation and housing costs have been key issues. visa statuses.

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